Light-emitting device including light-emitting layer in which thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and quantum dots are dispersed and manufacturing apparatus of light-emitting device

ABSTRACT

To provide a light-emitting device that can obtain fluorescence having a narrow spectrum more efficiently, a light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting layer in which thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and quantum dots are dispersed; a first electrode in a lower layer than the light-emitting layer; and a second electrode in an upper layer than the light-emitting layer, wherein a light emission spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and an absorption spectrum of the quantum dots at least partially overlap each other.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a light-emitting device including alight-emitting element including quantum dots and a manufacturingapparatus of the light-emitting dev ice.

BACKGROUND ART

PTL 1 describes a light-emitting element provided with a light-emittinglayer in which a material that emits thermally activated delayedfluorescence (TADF) and a material that emits fluorescence is mixed toimprove luminous efficiency.

In the light-emitting element of PTL 1, a singlet excitation state ofthe TADF material is created from a triplet excitation state of the TADFmaterial by reverse intersystem crossing. Then, the singlet excitationstate of the TADF material transitions to the singlet excitation stateof the fluorescent material by the Förster transition to generatefluorescence.

CITATION LIST Patent Literature

-   PTL 1: JP 2014-45179 A (published on Mar. 13, 2014).

SUMMARY OF INVENTION Technical Problem

A light emission spectrum of the fluorescent material is relativelybroad compared to that of an LED and the like. Therefore, in thelight-emitting element described in PTL 1, it is difficult to obtainlight emission with deep chromaticity compared to a conventional LED orthe like.

In order to achieve deep chromaticity, there are techniques that employa light emission material including quantum dots with a narrow lightemission spectrum and create excitons in the quantum dots to obtainlight emission. However, as the concentration of the quantum dots in thelight emission material increases, the luminous efficiency decreases dueto concentration reduction, so the concentration of the quantum dots inthe light emission material needs to be low. In a case that theconcentration of the quantum dots in the light emission material is low,excitons are generated in the dispersing material in the light emissionmaterial, and non-light emission radiation is generated, so the luminousefficiency decreases.

Solution to Problem

To solve the above-mentioned problems, a light-emitting device accordingto the present invention includes: a light-emitting, layer in whichthermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and quantum dots aredispersed; a first electrode in a lower layer than the light-emittinglayer; and a second electrode in an upper layer than the light-emittinglayer, wherein a light emission spectrum of the thermally activateddelayed fluorescence bodies and an absorption spectrum of the quantumdots at least partially overlap each other.

Advantageous Effects of Invention

With the above configuration, light emission can be obtained fromquantum dots having a narrow light emission spectrum, and alight-emitting device can be obtained with improved efficiency of thelight emission.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a light-emitting deviceaccording to a first embodiment of the present invention, and is adiagram illustrating examples of a light emission spectrum of thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence bodies of the light-emitting device andan absorption spectrum of quantum dots of the light-emitting device.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a molecular orbit diagram of thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence bodies and quantum dots in thelight-emitting device according to the first embodiment of the presentinvention, and a light emission mechanism of the light-emitting device.

FIG. 3 is a schematic top view and a schematic cross-sectional view of alight-emitting device according to a second embodiment of the presentinvention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic top view illustrating a relationship of positionsat which an edge cover and a light-emitting layer are formed in thelight-emitting device according to the second embodiment of the presentinvention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating examples of a light emission spectrumof thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and an absorptionspectrum of quantum dots in a red pixel area of the light-emittingdevice according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating examples of a light emission spectrumof thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and an absorptionspectrum of quantum dots in a green pixel area of the light-emittingdevice according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating examples of a light emission spectrumof thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and an absorptionspectrum of quantum dots in a blue pixel area of the light-emittingdevice according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a manufacturing apparatus of thelight-emitting device according to the embodiments of the presentinvention.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS First Embodiment

In the present specification, the direction from the light-emittinglayer to the first electrode of the light-emitting device is referred toas “lower direction”, and the direction from the light-emitting layer tothe second electrode of the light-emitting device is referred to as“upper direction”.

(a) of FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a light-emittingdevice 2 according to the present embodiment.

As illustrated in (a) of FIG. 1, the light-emitting device 2 has astructure in which layers are stacked on an array substrate 3 including,a Thin Film Transistor (TFT) not illustrated. A first electrode 4 formedin the upper layer of the array substrate 3 is electrically connectedwith the TFT of the array substrate 3. The light-emitting device 2includes, on the first electrode 4, a hole injection layer 6, a holetransport layer 8, a light-emitting layer 10, an electron transportlayer 12, an electron injection layer 14, and a second electrode 16 inthis order from the lower layer. In the present embodiment, the firstelectrode 4 is an anode and the second electrode 16 is a cathode.

The light-emitting layer 10 includes a host 18, thermally activateddelayed fluorescence (TAF) bodies 20, and quantum dots (semiconductornanoparticles) 22. The thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies20 and quantum dots 22 are dispersed in the host 18.

The host 18 includes a compound having a function of injecting andtransporting holes and electrons. The host 18 may include aphotosensitive material. The host 18 may further include a dispersingmaterial not illustrated.

In the light-emitting device 2, when a potential difference is appliedbetween the first electrode 4 and the second electrode 16, holes andelectrons are injected into the light-emitting layer 10 from the firstelectrode 4 and the second electrode 16, respectively. As illustrated in(a) of FIG. 1, a hole from the first electrode 4 reaches thelight-emitting layer 10 through the hole injection layer 6 and the holetransport layer 8. An electron from the second electrode 16 reaches thelight-emitting layer 10 through the electron injection layer 14 and theelectron transport layer 12.

The hole and electron having reached the light-emitting layer 10 arerecombined in the quantum dots 22 through the host 18, and an exciton isgenerated. The hole transport properties of the hole injection layer 6and the hole transport layer 8 and the electron transport properties ofthe electron injection layer 14 and the electron transport layer 12 areadjusted such that excitons are generated in the light-emitting layer 10as described above.

The thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20 include theground level, the singlet excitation level, and the triplet excitationlevel. When energy is applied to the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies 20 from the exciton generated by a recombination ofthe hole and the electron, the exciton is excited from the ground levelto, the triplet excitation level of the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies 20. Here, the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies 20 are capable of transitioning above the excitonsfrom the triplet excitation level to the singlet excitation level byreverse intersystem crossing. As the excitons transition from thesinglet excitation level to the ground level of the thermally activateddelayed fluorescence bodies 20, the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies 20 emit fluorescence. Therefore, the thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence bodies 20 are capable of converting someof the energy of the excitons in the triplet excitation level intofluorescence energy.

From the above, the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20are materials having the difference between the triplet excitation leveland the singlet excitation level being small enough to be capable ofintersystem crossing due to ambient thermal energy or the like.Specifically, the difference between the triplet excitation level andthe singlet excitation level is, for example, not greater than 0.2 eV,The thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20 may be DMAC-DPS,for example.

The quantum dots 22 are fluorescent materials having a valence bandlevel and a conduction band level, in which excitons excited from thevalence band level to the conduction band level emit fluorescence in acase of transitioning to the valence band level. Since fluorescence fromthe quantum dots 22 has a narrower spectrum as compared to fluorescencefrom typical fluorescent materials, it is possible to obtainfluorescence with relatively deep chromaticity from the quantum dots 22.The quantum dots 22 may be semiconductor nanoparticles having acore-shell structure with a CdSe core and a ZnS for example.

(b) of FIG. 1 is a spectrum graph in which an example of thefluorescence spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescencebodies 20 is illustrated by a solid line and an example of theabsorption spectrum of the quantum dots 22 is illustrated by a brokenline. The hatched area in (b) of FIG. 1 indicates an area where thefluorescence spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescencebodies 20 and the absorption spectrum of the quantum dots 22 overlap. Inthe spectrum graphs of the present specification, the horizontal axisindicates the wavelength and the vertical axis indicates the normalizedspectrum intensity. The spectrums in (b) of FIG. 1 are normalized withrespect to the maximum intensity set to 1.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a light emission mechanism of thelight-emitting device 2 according to the present embodiment. Left andright molecular orbit diagrams of FIG. 2 is a diagram illustratingmolecular orbits of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies20 and the quantum dots 22, respectively. Note that in the molecularorbit diagram of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies, S0represents the ground level, S1 represents the singlet excitation level,and T1 represents the triplet excitation level. In the molecular orbitdiagram of the quantum dots, VB represents the valence band level and CBrepresents the conduction band level. Note that, as illustrated in FIG.2, in the present embodiment, the singlet excitation level of thethermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20 is higher than theconduction band level of the quantum dots 22. This means that the peakwavelength of the light emission spectrum of the thermally activateddelayed fluorescence bodies 20 is shorter than the peak wavelength ofthe light emission spectrum of the quantum dots 22.

The light emission mechanism of light-emitting device 2 according to thepresent embodiment is described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 andFIG. 2.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, in a case where a hole and an electron havingreached the light-emitting layer 10 recombine in the thermally activateddelayed fluorescence bodies 20 through the host 18, an exciton isgenerated at the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20. Theexciton is excited from the ground level to the triplet excitation levelof the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20. Then, byreverse intersystem crossing, the exciton transitions from the tripletexcitation level to the singlet excitation level of the thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence bodies 20.

Here, the exciton of the singlet excitation level of the thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence bodies 20 transitions to the conductionband level of the quantum dots 22 by energy transfer by the Förstermechanism. In the present embodiment, the Förster mechanism is amechanism of energy transfer that is caused by a resonance phenomenon ofdipole vibrations between the thermally activated delayed fluorescencebodies 20 and the quantum dots 22. The energy transfer by the Förstermechanism does not require direct contact between the thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence bodies 20 and the quantum dots 22. Whenthe velocity constant of the Forster mechanism is represented byk_(h*→g), k_(h*→g) is expressed by Equation (1).

$\begin{matrix}{\left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 1} \right\rbrack\mspace{616mu}} & \; \\{{k_{h^{*}->E} = {\frac{9000c^{4}K^{2}{\phi ln10}}{128\pi^{5}n^{4}N\;\tau\; R^{6}}{\int{\frac{{f_{h}^{\prime}(v)}{ɛ_{g}(v)}}{v^{4}}{dv}}}}},} & (1)\end{matrix}$

where ν represents the number of vibrations, f′_(h)(ν) represents anormalized fluorescence spectrum of the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies 20, ε_(g)(ν) represents a molar absorptioncoefficient of the quantum dots 22, N represents an Avogadro's number, nrepresents the refractive index of the host 18, R represents theintermolecular distance between the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies 20 and the quantum dots 22, τ represents afluorescence lifetime of the excitation state of the thermally activateddelayed fluorescence bodies 20, the fluorescence lifetime being actuallymeasured, φ represents a fluorescence quantum yield of the thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence bodies 20, and K is a coefficientrepresenting an orientation of the transition dipole moment of thethermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20 and the quantum dots22. Note that, in a case of random orientation, K²=2/3.

The greater the velocity constant k_(h*→g), the more the energy transferof the Förster mechanism becomes dominant. In view of this, the energytransfer from the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20 tothe quantum dots 22 requires overlapping between the light emissionspectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20 andthe absorption spectrum of the quantum dots 22.

As illustrated in (b) of FIG. 1, in the present embodiment, thefluorescence spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescencebodies 20 and the absorption spectrum of the quantum dots 22 at leastpartially overlap. With this configuration, the above-described energytransfer occurs between the thermally activated delayed fluorescencebodies 20 and the quantum dots 22 whose intermolecular distance issufficiently small.

As illustrated in (b) of FIG. 1, in the present embodiment, the peakwavelength of the light emission spectrum of the thermally activateddelayed fluorescence bodies 20 is included in the absorption spectrum ofthe quantum dots 22, The peak wavelength of the absorption spectrum ofthe quantum dots 22 is included in the light emission spectrum of thethermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20. With thisconfiguration, the energy transfer described above more dominantlyoccurs.

Finally, in a case where an exciton transitions from the conduction bandlevel to the valence band level of the quantum dots 22, fluorescencehaving energy equal to the energy difference between the conduction bandlevel and the valence band level is emitted from the quantum dots 22.With the mechanism described above, fluorescence is obtained from thelight-emitting device 2.

In the light-emitting device 2 according to the present embodiment,fluorescence is obtained from the quantum dots 22. Therefore, thelight-emitting device 2 that obtains fluorescence having a narrowerspectrum can be achieved compared to a light-emitting device that emitsfluorescence from a typical fluorescent material.

In the present embodiment, fluorescence is generated from the quantumdots 22 by generating energy transfer of excitons from the thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence bodies 20 to the quantum dots 22.Therefore, compared to a case where excitons are generated directly inthe quantum dots 22, a decrease in luminous efficiency due toconcentration reduction is less likely to occur. Therefore, theconcentration of the quantum dots 22 can be increased to a certaindegree, and thus, the occurrence of non-light emission processes causedby the occurrence of excitons in the dispersing material or the like inthe light-emitting layer 10 can be reduced.

The concentration of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies20 in the light-emitting layer 10 is, for example, 10 mass % to 30 mass%. In a case where the concentration of the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies 20 falls within the range described above, theenergy transfer described above can be efficiently caused to occur. Theconcentration of the quantum dots 22 in the light-emitting layer is, forexample, 0.1 mass % to 1 mass %. In a case where the concentration ofthe quantum dots 22 falls within the range described above, a decreasein luminous efficiency due to concentration reduction can be reduced,and generation of excitons in the dispersing material can be suppressed.

Second Embodiment

FIG. 3 is an enlarged top view and an enlarged cross-sectional view ofthe light-emitting device 2 according to the present embodiment, (a) ofFIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating, through the electron transport layer12, the electron injection layer 14 and the second electrode 16, theupper face of a region around pixels of the light-emitting device 2. (b)of FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A of (a) ofFIG. 3.

In the present embodiment, the light-emitting device 2 includes aplurality of pixel areas, RP, GP and BP in comparison with the precedingembodiment. In the pixel area RP, a hole injection layer 6R, a holetransport layer SR, and a light-emitting layer 10R are formed on thefirst electrode 4 in this order from the lower side. Likewise, in thepixel areas OP and BP, hole injection layers 6G and 6B, hole transportlayers 8G and 8B, and light-emitting layers 10G and 10B are respectivelyformed in this order from the lower side. The light-emitting device 2further includes an edge cover 24. The edge cover 24 includes aplurality of openings and defines the plurality of pixel areas RP, GPand BP.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a relationship of formation positionsof the edge cover and the light-emitting layer of the light-emittingdevice 2 according to the present embodiment, fa) of FIG. 4 is anenlarged side cross-sectional view of the pixel area RP in FIG. 3. (b)of FIG. 4 is a top view illustrating formation positions of an openingof the edge cover and the light-emitting layer in the pixel area RP.

As illustrated in (a) of FIG. 4, the edge cover 24 includes an opening26R and an upper end 28R in the pixel area RP. The opening 26R issmaller than the upper end 28R, and the pore of the edge cover 24extends from the opening 26R up to the upper end 28R with thecross-sectional area of the pore being gradually increased.

Accordingly, as illustrated in (a) and (b) of FIG. 4, a lower end SIZEof the hole transport layer 8R is larger than the opening 26R of theedge cover 24. In other words, the light-emitting layer 10R in an upperlayer than the hole transport layer SR covers the opening 26R of theedge cover 24. The upper end 28R of the edge cover 24 is above the upperend 10RE of the light-emitting layer 10R. In other words, the upper end28R of the edge cover 24 surrounds the light-emitting layer 10R.

Referring to FIG. 3 again, the light-emitting layer 10R in the pixelarea RP includes a host 18R, thermally activated delayed fluorescencebodies 20R, and quantum dots 22R. Likewise, the light-emitting layer 10Gin the pixel area OP includes, a host 18G, thermally activated, delayedfluorescence bodies 20G, and quantum dots 22G, and the light-emittinglayer 10B in the pixel area BP includes a host 18B, thermally activateddelayed fluorescence bodies 20B, and quantum dots 22B.

In the present embodiment, the light-emitting layers 10R, 10G and 10B insome of the plurality of pixel areas RP, GP and BP includes quantum dotsdifferent from the quantum dots of the light-emitting layers 10R, 10Gand 10B in other different pixel areas. For example, in the presentembodiment, the light-emitting layer 10R in the pixel area RP includesthe quantum dots 22R that emit red light as fluorescence. Likewise, thelight-emitting layer 10G in the pixel area OP includes the quantum dots22G that emit green light as fluorescence, and the light-emitting layer10B in the pixel area BP includes the quantum dots 22B that emit bluelight as fluorescence.

Here, the blue light is light having the central wavelength of the lightemission in a wavelength band from 400 nm to 500 nm. The green light islight having the central wavelength of the light emission in awavelength band longer than 500 nm and shorter than or equal to 600 nm.The red light is light having the central wavelength of the lightemission in a wavelength band longer than 600 nm and shorter than orequal to 780 nm. The wavelength of fluorescence from the quantum dotscan be varied, for example, by designing the radius of the core/shellstructure of the quantum dots.

The light-emitting layers 10R, 10G and 10B in some of the plurality ofpixel areas RP, GP and BP may have a host or thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies different from the host or the thermally activateddelayed fluorescence bodies of the light-emitting layers 10R, 10G and10B in other different pixel areas. However, in the present embodiment,the hosts 18R, 18G and 18B and the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies 20R, 20G, and 20B in each of the pixel areas mayinclude the same member.

FIG. 5 is a spectrum graph in which an example of the fluorescencespectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies 20R isindicated by a solid line and an example of the absorption spectrum ofthe quantum dots 22R is indicated by a broken line. FIG. 6 is a spectrumgraph in which an example of the fluorescence spectrum of the thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence bodies 20G is indicated by a solid lineand an example of the absorption spectrum of the quantum dots 22G isindicated by a broken line, FIG. 7 is a spectrum graph in which anexample of the fluorescence spectrum of the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies 20B is indicated by a solid line and an example ofthe absorption spectrum of the quantum dots 22B is indicated by a brokenline. The hatched area in FIGS. 5 to 7 indicates an area where thefluorescence spectrum of each of the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies and the absorption spectrum of each of the quantumdots overlap. The spectrums in FIGS. 5 to 6 are normalized with respectto the maximum intensity set to 1.

In the present embodiment, the quantum dots 22R are CdSe—ZnS quantumdots with the light emission peak of 622 nm, manufactured by MesolightLLC. The quantum dots 22G are CdSe—ZnS quantum dots with the lightemission peak of 520 nm, manufactured by Mesolight LLC. The quantum dots22B are CdS—ZnS quantum dots with the light emission peak of 460 nm,manufactured by Mesolight LLC.

As illustrated in FIGS. 5 to 7, regarding the thermally activateddelayed fluorescence bodies and the quantum dots included in the samepixel area, the light emission spectrum of the thermally activateddelayed fluorescence bodies and the absorption spectrum of the quantumdots at least partially overlap. With this configuration, thelight-emitting device 2 according to the present embodiment emitsfluorescence by using a light emission mechanism similar to that of thelight-emitting device 2 according to the preceding embodiment,Therefore, similar in the previous embodiment, it is possible to providea light-emitting device 2 that can obtain fluorescence having a narrowspectrum more efficiently.

The wavelengths of the fluorescence from the quantum dots in the pixelareas are different from each other, and therefore, by controlling theTFTs to control the light emission from the quantum dots in the pixelareas, the light-emitting device 2 capable of performing multi-colordisplay can be provided.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a manufacturing apparatus 30 ofthe light-emitting device according to the embodiments. Themanufacturing apparatus 30 of the light-emitting device may include acontroller 32 and a film formation apparatus 34. The controller 32 maycontrol the film formation apparatus 34. The film formation apparatus 34may form each layer of the light-emitting device 2.

Supplement

A light-emitting device according to a first aspect includes: alight-emitting layer in which thermally activated delayed fluorescencebodies and quantum dots are dispersed; a first electrode in a lowerlayer than the light-emitting layer; and a second electrode in an upperlayer than the light-emitting layer, wherein a light emission spectrumof the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and an absorptionspectrum of the quantum dots at least partially overlap each other.

In a second aspect, an exciton generated in the quantum dotstransitions, through a resonance phenomenon of a dipole vibration, to anexcitation level of the quantum dots, and the quantum dots emit light.

In a third aspect, a peak wavelength of a light emission spectrum of thethermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies is shorter than a peakwavelength of a light emission spectrum of the quantum dots.

In a fourth aspect, a peak wavelength of a light emission spectrum ofthe thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies is included in anabsorption spectrum of the quantum dots.

In a fifth aspect, a peak wavelength of an absorption spectrum of thequantum dots is included in a light emission spectrum of the thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence bodies.

In a sixth aspect, a concentration of the thermally activated delayedfluorescence bodies in the light-emitting layer is from 10 mass % to 30mass %.

In a seventh aspect, a concentration of the quantum dots in thelight-emitting layer is from 0.1 mass % to 1 mass %.

In an eighth aspect, an edge cover is provided, the edge cover includinga plurality of openings, the edge cover being configured to define thelight-emitting layer into a plurality of pixel areas, and for theplurality of openings, the light-emitting layer covers each of theplurality of openings, and an upper end of the edge cover surrounds thelight-emitting layer.

In a ninth aspect, the light-emitting layer includes a photosensitivematerial, and the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies andthe quantum dots are dispersed in the photosensitive material.

A manufacturing apparatus of a light-emitting device according to atenth aspect includes a film formation apparatus configured to form alight-emitting layer in which thermally activated delayed fluorescencebodies and quantum dots are dispersed, an absorption spectrum of thequantum dots at least partially overlapping with a light emissionspectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies; a firstelectrode in a lower layer than the light-emitting layer; and a secondelectrode in an upper layer than the light-emitting layer.

The present invention is not limited to each of the embodimentsdescribed above, and various modifications may be made within the scopeof the claims. Embodiments obtained by appropriately combining technicalapproaches disclosed in each of the different embodiments also fallwithin the technical scope of the present invention. Moreover, noveltechnical features can be formed by combining the technical approachesdisclosed in the embodiments.

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-   2 Light-emitting device-   4 First electrode-   10 Light-emitting layer-   16 Second electrode-   18 Host-   20 Thermally activated delayed fluorescence body-   22 Quantum dot

The invention claimed is:
 1. A light-emitting device comprising: a light-emitting layer in which thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and quantum dots are dispersed in a host; a first electrode in a layer below the light-emitting layer; and a second electrode in a layer above the light-emitting layer, wherein a light emission spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and an absorption spectrum of the quantum dots at least partially overlap each other, the host includes: a dispersing material; and a compound having a function of injecting and transporting holes and electrons, and an intermolecular distance between the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and the quantum dots is smaller than a distance over which energy is transferred from the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies to the quantum dots.
 2. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein an exciton generated in the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies transitions, through a resonance phenomenon of a dipole vibration, to a conduction band level of the quantum dots, and the quantum dots emit light.
 3. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein a peak wavelength of the light emission spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies is shorter than a peak wavelength of a light emission spectrum of the quantum dots.
 4. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein a peak wavelength of the light emission spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies is included in the absorption spectrum of the quantum dots.
 5. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein a peak wavelength of the absorption spectrum of the quantum dots is included in the light emission spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies.
 6. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein a concentration of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies in the light-emitting layer is from 10 mass % to 30 mass %.
 7. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein a concentration of the quantum dots in the light-emitting layer is from 0.1 mass % to 1 mass %.
 8. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein an edge cover is provided, the edge cover including a plurality of openings, the edge cover being configured to define the light-emitting layer into a plurality of pixel areas, and for each of the plurality of openings, the light-emitting layer covers the plurality of openings, and an upper end of the edge cover surrounds the light-emitting layer.
 9. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein the light-emitting layer includes a photosensitive material, and the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and the quantum dots are dispersed in the photosensitive material.
 10. A manufacturing apparatus of a light-emitting device, the manufacturing apparatus comprising a film formation apparatus configured to form: a light-emitting layer in which thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and quantum dots are dispersed in a host, an absorption spectrum of the quantum dots at least partially overlapping with a light emission spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies; a first electrode in a layer below the light-emitting layer; and a second electrode in a layer above the light-emitting layer, wherein the host includes: a dispersing material; and a compound having a function of injecting and transporting holes and electrons, and an intermolecular distance between the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies and the quantum dots is smaller than a distance over which energy is transferred from the thermally activated delayed fluorescence bodies to the quantum dots. 